What went wrong with Skype?

Skype was Microsoft’s biggest-ever acquisition in 2011, a deal brokered by former CEO Steve Ballmer when the company was trying to compete with the rise of the iPhone. But after spending $8.5 billion on Skype, Microsoft dropped the ball again and again over the past 14 years, to the point where Skype was so irrelevant…

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‘Hamilton’ star put on notice by Trump’s Kennedy Center president after anti-GOP ‘publicity stunt’

The newly minted president of the Kennedy Center, Richard Grenell, took the Broadway star behind the creation of “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda, to task over a “publicity stunt” he said discriminates against Republican voters and will likely “backfire.” “The American people need to know that @Lin_Manuel is intolerant of people who don’t agree with him politically….

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